This invaluable book explains, in simple language, why we overeat, and why we find food that is salty, fatty and sweet so tempting and addictive. It then zooms into the simplest and most basic principles of effective dieting, which the author himself has used over the past 25 years with success. The book distills only what is absolutely necessary.Cutting... more...

This encyclopedia contains trigonometric identity proofs for some three hundred identities. The book is presented in the form of mathematical games for the reader's enjoyment and includes a concordance of trigonometric identities, enabling easy reference. Trig or Treat is a must-have for:. • every student of trigonometry, to find the proofs... more...

This unique book — based on the author's experience in teaching his grandchildren mathematics the fun way — provides the knowledge and skills to teach math to young children, through learning games with playing cards. Children grow to associate math with fun, pleasure and parental love and attention. The author's innovative... more...

"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." -- The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants --gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a... more...

December, 1917. The Great War is rampaging through Europe ? yet Trelawney Hart has scarcely noticed. The arch-sceptic and former child prodigy has lost his way and now ekes out a lonely existence, taking his only comfort from the bottle. This dissolute lifestyle is interrupted, however, when spiritualist crusader and celebrated author Sir Arthur... more...

An increasingly hot-button issue, genetically modified (GM) food is considered by some as the best way to feed the world?s growing population, and by others as an experiment gone wrong on the unsuspecting public. Genetically Modified Foods: Basics, Applications, and Controversy details the basics of biotechnology and its applications in the laboratory... more...

'Leaning against the wind' (LAW) with a higher monetary policy interest rate may have benefits interms of lower real debt growth and associated lower probability of a financial crisis but has costs interms of higher unemployment and lower inflation, importantly including a higher cost of a crisiswhen the economy is weaker. For existing empirical estimates,... more...

THE ONE BOOK YOU WON?T FORGET IN 2017 A gripping psychological thriller full of hidden fragments and dark reflections. How would you piece together a murder? Do you trust other people?s memories? Do you trust your own? Should you? Princeton, 1987 : renowned psychologist Professor Joseph Weider is brutally murdered . New York, twenty-five... more...

Father and Son is one of the most beloved comic strips ever drawn?an uproarious, timeless ode to the pleasures, pitfalls, and endless absurdity of family life. Created in Germany in 1934 by the political cartoonist Erich Ohser (using the pseudonym E.O. Plauen after being persecuted for his opposition to the Nazi regime), the gruff, loving,... more...